The Fedora Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are teams within the Fedora Project that do not meet the Project definition from the [[Defining projects]] page. The SIGs are sometimes a first stage in the development of new projects within the Fedora Project.

The Fedora Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are teams within the Fedora Project that do not meet the Project definition from the [[Defining projects]] page. The SIGs are sometimes a first stage in the development of new projects within the Fedora Project.

== Introduction to some SIGs ==

== Introduction to some SIGs ==

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=== Ada ===

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Maintainers of Ada packages in Fedora are strongly encouraged to [mailto:Ada-request@lists.fedoraproject.org?subject=subscribe subscribe] to [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ada the Fedora Ada mailing list]. Anyone else who is interested is also welcome to subscribe.

=== Amateur Radio ===

=== Amateur Radio ===

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[[:Category:Astronomy_SIG|Astronomy]]

[[:Category:Astronomy_SIG|Astronomy]]

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=== Audio Creation ===

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Our goal is to make Fedora the best free/open-source platform for computer-based music production, audio mastering, and audio editing.

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[[Audio Creation]]

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=== Big Data ===

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The Big Data SIG, in grand Fedora style, aims to make Fedora the best platform for all things related to Big Data.

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[[SIGs/bigdata | Bigdata SIG]]

=== Bug Triage ===

=== Bug Triage ===

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[[BugZappers| Fedora Bug Triage]]

[[BugZappers| Fedora Bug Triage]]

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=== Cloud ===

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The Fedora Cloud SIG works to make Fedora successful on all major cloud platforms, public and private.

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[[Cloud SIG | Cloud SIG]]

=== Desktop ===

=== Desktop ===

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[[SIGs/Desktop| Desktop]]

[[SIGs/Desktop| Desktop]]

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=== Education ===

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The mission of the Fedora Education SIG (Edu SIG) is to optimize Fedora for use by teachers and learners, both within and outside of the context of educational institutions.

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We do this by building, maintaining, and evangelizing a strong ecosystem of educational packages within Fedora and by supporting learners in using these packages as tools to reach their curricular goals.

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[[SIGs/Education|Education]]

=== EPEL ===

=== EPEL ===

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=== Erlang ===

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The mission of the Erlang SIG is to encourage the packaging of Erlang projects in Fedora.

to prove that models of software, hardware, or systems will or will not

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have certain behaviors. To be practical, they must be automated

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The goal of the Formal Methods SIG is to make it easy to install formal methods tools in Fedora, ease learning how to apply them, encourage the development of "open proofs" (where an implementation, proofs, and required tools are all FLOSS), and to provide feedback to toolmakers so that the tools in Fedora can become more powerful, more scaleable, and easier to use together.

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[[FormalMethods|Formal Methods SIG]]

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=== Games ===

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[[GIS| Geographic Information System]]

[[GIS| Geographic Information System]]

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=== Gnome ===

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The [[SIGs/Gnome | Gnome SIG]] is a group of Fedora contributors that contribute towards maintaining packages, documentation, infrastructure and helping each other in all Gnome desktop related efforts in Fedora. Their mission is to define and deliver modern, high-quality upstream desktop experience to Fedora users and developers.

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[[SIGs/Gnome | Gnome SIG]]

=== Independent Software Vendor (ISV) ===

=== Independent Software Vendor (ISV) ===

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[[SIGs/ISV | ISV SIG]]

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=== Java ===

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The Java SIG is a group of Fedora contributors that contribute towards [[Java|Java in Fedora]]. Their mission is to provide high-quality Java applications and environment to Fedora users and developers and to support each other in the maintenance.

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[[SIGs/Java | Java SIG]]

=== KDE ===

=== KDE ===

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=== Live Upgrade ===

=== Live Upgrade ===

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If you want to participate in efforts to make live upgrades be smoother, join the Live Upgrade SIG.

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If you want to participate in efforts to make live upgrades smoother, join the Live Upgrade SIG.

[[SIGs/LiveUpgrade| Live Upgrade]]

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=== LXDE ===

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The LXDE SIG (is a group of Fedora contributors that contribute towards [[LXDE|LXDE in Fedora]]. Their mission is to define a high-quality LXDE experience to Fedora users and developers in maintaining packages and helping each other in all LXDE related efforts.

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The LXDE SIG is a group of Fedora contributors that contribute towards [[LXDE|LXDE in Fedora]]. Their mission is to define a high-quality LXDE experience to Fedora users and developers in maintaining packages and helping each other in all LXDE related efforts.

The Fedora Mini SIG is a group of Fedora contributors that are interested in Fedora on small devices. Initially aimed at supporting NetBooks, Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), it could over time be expanded to also cover things such as Set Top Boxes (STBs).

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The Machine Learning SIG's goal is to make Fedora the best platform for all things related to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning Machine Learning]. We aim to act a hub in the gap between the Astronomy, Bigdata, Fedora Medical and Science and Technology SIGs.

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[[SIGs/ML | Machine Learning]]

=== Fedora Medical ===

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[[SIGs/FedoraMedical | Fedora Medical]]

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The Mono SIG is a group of Fedora contributors that maintain Mono (and related) packages in Fedora. Their goal is to provide high-quality and usable mono software packages to Fedora users and developers and to support one another in maintaining those packages.

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=== Minimal Core ===

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The Fedora Minimal Core SIG is a group of people interested in maintaining Fedora's minimal package set. This is the Core group in the comps file, and any packages installed by the Anaconda installer by default.

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[[SIGs/Minimal_Core | Fedora Minimal Core]]

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The Fedora Mobolity SIG is a group of Fedora contributors that are interested in Fedora on small devices. Initially aimed at supporting NetBooks, Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), Tablets etc. It could over time be expanded to also cover things such as Set Top Boxes (STBs).

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[[Mobility| Mobility]]

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The Mono SIG is a group of Fedora contributors that maintain Mono (and related) packages in Fedora. Their goal is to provide high-quality and usable mono software packages to Fedora users and developers and to support one another in maintaining those packages.

[[SIGs/Mono| Mono]]

[[SIGs/Mono| Mono]]

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The NoSQL SIG is a group of Fedora contributors that maintain NoSQL-related packages in Fedora. Their goal is to provide high-quality and usable NoSQL software packages to Fedora users and developers and to support one another in maintaining those packages.

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=== Package Review ===

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This SIG is currently in its infancy and things are still being organized.

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The job is to process new package review submissions and review them for quality and adherence to the Packaging Guidelines. As this is the initial experience for many new contributors to the Fedora Project, we also work towards making this procedure as enjoyable as possible.

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Anyone is welcome to join. Obviously it is necessary for one to already be a packager in order to review packages, but there are many tasks that can be done by anyone, and participation in the SIG is a good path to sponsorship.

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The purpose of the Secondary arch SIGS are to promote fedora on different architectures.

The purpose of the Secondary arch SIGS are to promote fedora on different architectures.

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The [[Security]] SIG has goals of developing secure-coding (and other) training, code audits, and working with security vulnerabilities.

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We are to create free sound themes for fedora, using only FOSS software available from the Fedora repositories.

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SSCG (Source String Contextualizing Group) provides meaningful descriptions of the source strings for translators to ensure the correctness and quality of the translations. Thus facilitating good end user experience of the localized Fedora applications.

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=== Store ===

Revision as of 15:47, 24 September 2013

The Fedora Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are teams within the Fedora Project that do not meet the Project definition from the Defining projects page. The SIGs are sometimes a first stage in the development of new projects within the Fedora Project.

Big Data

Bug Triage

Fedora Bug Triage attempts to manage the flow of bug reports filed against other Fedora projects. They stand to prevent the other project members being overwhelmed by bug reports, eliminating trivial bugs, removing or correcting flawed or inadequate reports, and making sure that maintainers are able to get things done.

Cloud

Desktop

The Desktop SIG strives to make Fedora a very good desktop distribution. The goal is to produce a more targeted desktop spin while maintaining traditional Fedora strengths such as security and commitment to free software. The Desktop SIG will develop and release the "Fedora Desktop" live CD

Education

The mission of the Fedora Education SIG (Edu SIG) is to optimize Fedora for use by teachers and learners, both within and outside of the context of educational institutions.

We do this by building, maintaining, and evangelizing a strong ecosystem of educational packages within Fedora and by supporting learners in using these packages as tools to reach their curricular goals.

EPEL

EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) is targeted at filling the gap between the complete Fedora Collection and the packages that are maintained in Enterprise Linux. We are a community of individuals focusing on package maintenance and infrastructure to provide as many packages as possible to the consumers of Enterprise Linux. The EPEL SIG is led by a steering committee.

Fonts

The Fonts Special Interest Group is an informal group of Fedora Linux contributors. It is dedicated to improving fonts availability and text rendering/layouting in the distribution and its other Linux derivatives.

Formal Methods

"Formal methods" are techniques that use mathematics
to prove that models of software, hardware, or systems will or will not
have certain behaviors. To be practical, they must be automated
using tools.
The goal of the Formal Methods SIG is to make it easy to install formal methods tools in Fedora, ease learning how to apply them, encourage the development of "open proofs" (where an implementation, proofs, and required tools are all FLOSS), and to provide feedback to toolmakers so that the tools in Fedora can become more powerful, more scaleable, and easier to use together.

Geographic Information System

Gnome

The Gnome SIG is a group of Fedora contributors that contribute towards maintaining packages, documentation, infrastructure and helping each other in all Gnome desktop related efforts in Fedora. Their mission is to define and deliver modern, high-quality upstream desktop experience to Fedora users and developers.

Independent Software Vendor (ISV)

The ISV can be anything from a one- or two-man shop to a software design and development powerhouse. Fedora is a great platform for showing off your product, especially to community developers who might be interested in contributing code, plugins, or feedback.

Java

The Java SIG is a group of Fedora contributors that contribute towards Java in Fedora. Their mission is to provide high-quality Java applications and environment to Fedora users and developers and to support each other in the maintenance.

KDE

The KDE SIG is a group of Fedora contributors that maintain KDE packages in Fedora. Their mission is to provide high-quality, usable KDE software packages to Fedora users and developers and to support one another in maintaining those packages.

Live Upgrade

LXDE

The LXDE SIG is a group of Fedora contributors that contribute towards LXDE in Fedora. Their mission is to define a high-quality LXDE experience to Fedora users and developers in maintaining packages and helping each other in all LXDE related efforts.

Machine Learning

The Machine Learning SIG's goal is to make Fedora the best platform for all things related to Machine Learning. We aim to act a hub in the gap between the Astronomy, Bigdata, Fedora Medical and Science and Technology SIGs.

Fedora Medical

Minimal Core

The Fedora Minimal Core SIG is a group of people interested in maintaining Fedora's minimal package set. This is the Core group in the comps file, and any packages installed by the Anaconda installer by default.

Mobility

The Fedora Mobolity SIG is a group of Fedora contributors that are interested in Fedora on small devices. Initially aimed at supporting NetBooks, Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), Tablets etc. It could over time be expanded to also cover things such as Set Top Boxes (STBs).

Mono

The Mono SIG is a group of Fedora contributors that maintain Mono (and related) packages in Fedora. Their goal is to provide high-quality and usable mono software packages to Fedora users and developers and to support one another in maintaining those packages.

NoSQL

The NoSQL SIG is a group of Fedora contributors that maintain NoSQL-related packages in Fedora. Their goal is to provide high-quality and usable NoSQL software packages to Fedora users and developers and to support one another in maintaining those packages.

Package Review

This SIG is currently in its infancy and things are still being organized.
The job is to process new package review submissions and review them for quality and adherence to the Packaging Guidelines. As this is the initial experience for many new contributors to the Fedora Project, we also work towards making this procedure as enjoyable as possible.
Anyone is welcome to join. Obviously it is necessary for one to already be a packager in order to review packages, but there are many tasks that can be done by anyone, and participation in the SIG is a good path to sponsorship.

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Robotics

The goal is to bring packages of open and free software related to robotics and educational software for robotics into Fedora and make Fedora fit to power (mobile) robots.
Fedora Robotics SIG

Ruby SIG

A SIG for people who are interested in improving the state of Ruby in Fedora. This includes packaging Ruby libraries and applications, setting and improving standards for packaging them as RPM's and maintaining Ruby packages for Fedora.

Stateless Linux

SSCG

SSCG (Source String Contextualizing Group) provides meaningful descriptions of the source strings for translators to ensure the correctness and quality of the translations. Thus facilitating good end user experience of the localized Fedora applications.